Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for January 23, 2024

Never.

It’s a slippery slope. You can agree to this and then another app will do the same thing and it’s another $3.00, and before you know it you’re shelling out much more!

Do the ads cause you $3 per month of annoyance?

Since when is advertising reasonable, Bub?

I hate the “Its only …” rationale for addons because they just keep adding on “its only…”.

I said many years ago ‘be careful what you wish for’ when everyone was complaining about cable. Is it any different now? You’re essentially picking your ‘cable’ company (service provider) and a lot of the streaming services offer the exact same things. But to get more you have to pay more – just like cable. I’ll take the commercials because it does allow you a moment to go get something to eat/drink, etc.

How much am I not interested in TV? I worked for Group W Cable for four years. 100% free for employees. Never signed up.

The ads are generally too short to bother me, or long enough that I can do something else during them. It’s like the idiot, above, said. The streamers are following the airlines’ race to the bottom wrt price and service.

Yesterday, I finally decided to watch The Office. Comcast says it’s free on Peacock. Peacock wants me to pay $6 a month or more (for no ads). I don’t want to watch it that badly, and I can wait until it comes around again on Comedy Central.

It’s not extortion – you don’t have to watch TV.

When cable first came out they said there would be no more commercials.

Too true to be funny.

I am down with you Betty! Prime isn’t worth the money NOW. I don’t watch it much. After the ads, it will drop to ZERO.

Except 3/4 of the shows will still have inescapable ads due to the network policies.

I will watch some sports events on ESPN (or whatever) that have ads. But I ignore the ads / mute the noise / don’t look at them / change the channel for a while.

Anything else – if it has ads I quit watching. Which limits my viewing choices but I truly despise ads.

I grew up with commercials on TV and radio. I think they’re the lesser of two evils. I don’t subscribe to any services and resent paying for cable.

The streaming services segmented their audiences into such tiny groups that they are having trouble getting enough interest to generate the revenue they need to create and/or license the content they stream and to pay their investors.

Guess I don’t understand the aggravation about ads. I just mute them, do something else for a bit, and then watch again. There are too many other things in life to annoy me to waste teeth grinding on ads.